When Acura’s exciting 2015 TLX model hits show room floors, dealers and salespeople will be ready, thanks to a dramatic mobile training venue created and managed by Mobile X Events, a division of Select 1 Group. The TLX has wowed critics and enthusiasts ever since its debut at the 2014 North American International Auto Show...
As a premier provider of specialized vehicle transportation, mobile exhibit creation and logistics, Select 1 Group is a major player in the largest auto shows in North America. In the U.S., the four biggest happen in Los Angeles, Chicago, Detroit and New York. S1G drivers hauled a dazzling variety of new models, concept vehicles and...
There is no worse feeling than having your vehicle stall out while driving on a busy highway on a scorching hot day. On any day when the thermometer climbs out of the eighties you’re likely to see a number of cars and light trucks parked on the shoulders of highway and Interstates, steam rising from...
You see them on Interstates, two-lane highways, asphalt roads, anywhere heavy trucks roll you’ll see what are known as “alligators” or simply “gators”. They’re those long strips of rubber that most drivers think have peeled away from moving tractor-trailer rigs. They can be a hassle and even a hazard, depending on their size. But heavy...
At Select 1 Group we drive heavy trucks for a living. It’s our passion, actually. That’s why we are a premier hauler of specialty vehicles and a renowned provider of custom mobile exhibits and logistics. An important tool of our trade is the rubber we ride on. We rely on safe tires and spend a...
In many ways, the world is getting smaller. Sometimes that’s convenient while at other times it’s annoying. In one way, though, partnership with companies in many other countries helps Select 1 Group maintain unmatched levels of service for it customers. The Switzerland-based International Organization of Standards (English acronym ISO) creates worldwide recommendations for best practices...
The Greek word Isos means equal. Which is the whole point behind ISO, the English acronym for the Switzerland-based International Organization of Standardization. ISO creates worldwide standards covering “almost all aspects of technology and business,” according to the Organization. The group, founded by 25 civil engineers in 1946, has blossomed to include mutually agreed-upon standards...
On a sunny day in Tempe, Arizona, a small group of professional truck drivers gathers around two instructors. Ron Fyffe, S1G Driver Services Manager, and Mike Hubler, the training group’s Lead Mentor, are about to take them through their paces to see how they shape up as S1G drivers. “We try to keep the groups...
We all know trucking companies that have to interview many potential drivers because they experience a lot of driver turnover. Some seemingly hire anyone who can keep the wheels between the ditches and put them on the road with minimal training. Select 1 Group views drivers – and driver training – a lot differently. Because...
When the New York International Auto Show began in 1900, automobile were often still called “horseless carriages”. Men in top hats and derbies drove the sputtering early gasoline-powered vehicles, electrics and steam cars into the old Madison Square Garden. Ladies in long dresses and big hats watched from cane-backed chairs in the Garden’s box seat...
